Although it would be a really ungrateful thing for said settlers to do that when right and center-right dominated governments have spent twice as much on the average settler in the Occupied Territories as they do on the average Israeli citizen living in, say, Tel Aviv, Ashkelon, Haifa or Acre.

I don’t praise Bibi’s genius enough, I really don’t. One, it makes more housing available (though only a certain number of demonstrators would probably want to live in them) and two, it makes East Jerusalem even more “fundamentally” part of Israel. What more could the Israeli right ask for?

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